I.O.U.S.A.

This documentary manages to do something damn near impossible: make the subject of the U.S. national debt understandable and, moreover, render it interesting and urgent.

"...by: Patrick Creadon. This documentary manages to do something damn near impossible: make the subject of the U.S. national..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Air Guitar Nation

What other international competition awards points for general "airiness"? This fun documentary celebrates the weirdness but never mocks the participants.

"...Alexandra Lipsitz. Flat out, Air Guitar Nation (winner of the Audience Award at South by Southwest 06) is a..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

EDtv

"...Directed by: Ron Howard. Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Dennis Hopper,..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marie Baie Des Anges

"...pout, and Marie Baie Des Anges does not disappoint. Neither the adolescent strutting of 15-year-old Lolita-in-training Marie (Giocante) nor..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Adds Cheech Marin, Titane Director Julia Ducournau For 2023

Plus the Metaverse and student athlete NIL deals part of the program

"...The hybrid movie, music, technology and culture extravaganza had already..."

Nov. 15, 2022 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

C Sick

Eight years after the Chronicle's initial look in hepatitis C, Austin's music community is both better and worse

"...Randy "Biscuit" Turner mopped the sweat from his forehead and leaned into the toilet..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...script almost since it was written. During most of the past decade it has been regarded as one of..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Postmarks

Sucking Us Dry

"...Dear Editor: Senator Buster Brown justifies squelching the creation of 22 new groundwater conservation districts until Senate..."

May 21, 1999 Column

Bodied

Battle rap comedy takes no prisoners

"...Is Bodied a comedy? It’s wildly laugh-out-loud funny at times, for sure, but this send-up of the world of..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

The notorious life of Serge Gainsbourg is whimsically re-created onscreen.

"...The life and times of France's other national treasure, Serge..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rock Star

"...Jennifer Aniston and Mark Wahlberg. Coming of age during the Eighties, kids had two obvious paths as far as..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...Second, Taylor, 512/352-6206 Mon-Thu, 9am-8pm; Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat, 9am-'til they run outta food...."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

Welcome to Sarajevo

"...make sense of a conflict that most Westerners would rather put out of their minds isn't really Welcome to..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wednesday Picks & Sleepers

Wednesday night SXSW blurbs

"...Wednesday Picks Sonny Knight & the Lakers..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

A Tale of Two Cities: Toronto vs. Seattle

"...Christ! T.J. Ford’s back, and back in a big damn way. On February 4, in Miami, Ford had been..."

Feb. 11, 2008 Sports Post by Andy Denham

Music Rally Demands City Funding: “Put Up or Shut Up”

Thursday’s Council vote portrayed both as last stand ... and a start

"...The event, co-organized by the Amplified Sound Coalition and Austin..."

Sept. 28, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pole Position

For some kinds of dance, you need Brass Ovaries

"...at least once. You see, I've been raised on the tenets and philosophies of improvisation ... literally. I've been..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Arts Feature by Kaci Beeler

White House Press Whores?

Top 10 media stories

"...All in all, it was a lousy year for the White House's attempt to manipulate the press. But it..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Bleeding Kansas

One-string gas-tank basses and the people who play them.

"...course that awful Seventies band, you might not think there'd be much to do in Wichita. But with Boeing,..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

American Pie

"...What hath Porky's wrought? This new, faster version of the semi-classic teen sex farce is a howler, bawdy yet..."

July 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rocketman

A biopic of Elton John be as spectacular and catty as the man himself

"...Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Gemma Jones, Bryce Dallas Howard, Matthew Illesley, Kit Connor, Tate Donovan, Charlie Rowe, Stephen Graham..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...own truncated moniker in 2016 for Get Out of the City. The shift allowed the decadelong Austin scene veteran..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Keep Calm and Party On

Everything you need to know to navigate SXSW Film

"...Confused about the queues? Overwhelmed by the party options? Hankering for the..."

March 4, 2013 Screens Post

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...No one expected there to be a fourth trip to Tuna...."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 2

Nashville, Coconut Grove, and points in between

"...Far: Having almost accidentally discovered Vince Martin's album If the Jasmine Don't Get You ... the Bay Breeze Will..."

May 25, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Red-State Specials

In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate

"...complexity is derided as obfuscation, and any deviation from the party line (whatever the party, whatever the line) is..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Drawing Restraint 9

Iconoclastic artist Matthew Barney and his paramour Björk flood the screen with arresting images and sounds, and though little of it makes ordinary sense, it's compelling nevertheless.

"...Directed by: Matthew Barney. Starring: Matthew Barney, Björk and Sosui Oshima. While..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Are You Decent?

Dudley & Bob and the footsoldiers in the FCC's war on pop culture

"...KLBJ-FM's crowded production booth on a chilly Friday morning, the crusade against smut on the airwaves is colliding with..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Kevin Brass

Rollercoaster

"...and that pesky VD didn't get cleared up by the end of the hour. The film jackhammers out the..."

March 23, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In Defense of Paul McCartney

Milquetoast Balladeer or Songwriting Stud?

"..."After all, the Beatles were John's group. He was the band leader..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Music Feature

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